Alvin Ing, the Honolulu native who starred on Broadway in a revival of Flower Drum Song and appeared in two editions of Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, has died. He was 89.
Ing died Saturday of cardiac arrest amid a battle with Covid-19 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, a publicist announced. Though he had been fully vaccinated, he had been diagnosed with the virus two weeks earlier.
Ing also appeared in such films as The Final Countdown (1980), Stir Crazy (1980), Troop Beverly Hills (1989), Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) and The Gambler (2014).
On television, he had recurring roles on The Doctors and Falcon Crest and ...
Ing died Saturday of cardiac arrest amid a battle with Covid-19 at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, a publicist announced. Though he had been fully vaccinated, he had been diagnosed with the virus two weeks earlier.
Ing also appeared in such films as The Final Countdown (1980), Stir Crazy (1980), Troop Beverly Hills (1989), Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) and The Gambler (2014).
On television, he had recurring roles on The Doctors and Falcon Crest and ...
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